Giving peace a chance.

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As the article "Darfur's Agony" reports, the United Nations views the situation in Sudan as "the world's worst humanitarian crisis." Of the $6.8 billion the U.N. spent this year on peacekeeping missions, the Largest share went to Darfur. The U.N. first sent peacekeepers in 1948 to the new state of Israel and helped to monitor the Armistice Agreement the following year with its Arab neighbors. There have been 63 missions since--at a cost of $54 billion, funded by nations around the world, with the U.S. being the largest contributor.

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ANALYSE THE GRAPH

1 If you divided the budget for the Darfur operation in half, it would be plotted on the graph between which two operations?

a Cote d'Ivoire and Kosovo

b Liberia and Lebanon

c Sudan and Congo

d Haiti and Liberia

2 If you add the three smallest budgets on the graph, they would total just under half the budget for operations in which country? a Haiti

b Lebanon

c Congo

d Darfur

3 The smartest budget for the year, $35 million, was for the former Soviet Republic of Georgia [not shown]. Which mission was allotted just over six times that amount?

a East Timor

b Kosovo

c Lebanon

d Congo

4 Lebanon's budget for the previous year was just under $351 million, about --what it is for the current year.

a one half of

b one third of

c twice

d the same as

5 The 12-year mission in Iraq and Kuwait, which ended in 2003, totaled $600 million. That is about how many dollars less...